DATE WITH THE GODS

My First Meeting with Rama 31

and I tried to get turned on by reading some erotic

passages about King Solomon. Besides, the Bible had

never held the same attraction for reading as Penthouse

or Playboy magazines.

I started to read aloud, Exodus 19:^16 to 19:

And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that

there were th u nders and lightenings, and a thick cloud

upon the mount, and the voice of tire trumpet exceeding

loud; so that all the people that were in the ca mp trembled.

And Moses brought fo rth the people out of the camp to

meet with God: and they stood at the nether part of the

mount.

And Mount Sinai was altog ether on a smoke, because

the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof

ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount

quaked greatly.

And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and

waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered

him by a voice.

I stopped reading, "Okay, hold up a minute," she said.
"What do you make out of these words, using simple
logic?"
She looked straight into my eyes. "If you think you
need more background to understand it, remember the
movie 'The Ten Commandments" where Charlton Hes­
ton plays Moses? The whole movie is about the book of
Exodus."
"I remember; I saw the movie."
"Well, what do you make out of it?"
I reviewed the passage I'd just read. "Okay, verse 16
talks about a thick cloud, light, and a blasting sound. The
loud trumpet I can associate with the same kind of noise
you hear at JFK International Airport after a TWA 727